I wonder if the movie shows how the IJN and Japanese Army Air Force used psychological pressure to obtain ‘volunteers’ for kamikaze units? Because that’s fairly well documented from among the ‘survivors’ (pilots who didn’t actually fly a mission). I only mention that because the enthusiasm for the mission was not universal.
Dad, not being restrained by Asian nationality differences, named a hypothetical surviving kamikaze pilot in a joke, ‘chicken chowmein’.
Of course dad fought against the Japanese on Guadalcanal and Bougainville. So he pretty much had the right to say it anyway he wanted. Later in life he bought a Toyota. I guess the price was right.
That is the main criticism of The Eternal Zero - that the pilots are portrayed as volunteers acting out of duty, not as young kids who were told that they would be a disgrace to their families if they did not die